Texas Frackers Sue Victim of Their Water Pollution for $3 Million for Exposing Them

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By: Fishoutofwater, 11/08/2013

 

Fracking outfit Range Resources slapped Texas homeowner Steve Lipsky with a $3 million defamation suit to bully him into silence about his polluted water but Lipsky is fighting back. Lipsky is a wealthy man, not used to being bullied, but the frackers think they can use their control of the state of Texas to bulldoze him. They have bought off the Texas Railroad Commission that supposedly regulates fracking in Texas, and intimidated the USEPA into inaction so they don't intend to let minor matters like safe drinking water, private property rights and the first Amendment get in the way of their pursuit of profits.

 

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We are all graduating, and will be leaving people like this in the dust!! They can have their money! Do they want GMO'd fries with their order of crispy money?? I hope someone brings the ketchup!!